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at Caterham, aged 67, George Sibley, C.I.E.; educated at University College, London; employed under Mr. Brunel on the Great Western Railway, 1845, and on the East India Railway in 1851; appointed chief engineer of the line in 1868, and, amongst other works, constructed the Jumna Bridge. On the 26th, at Wootton House, Hants, aged 67, Colonel James Frederick Crichton Stuart, eldest son of Lord Patrick James Stuart, M.P.; educated at Eton, and Trinity College, Cambridge; entered the army, and served in the Grenadier Guards; sat in Parliament as a Liberal for Cardiff District Burghs, 1857-80; Lord-Lieutenant of Buteshire; married, 1864, Gertrude Frances, daughter of Sir George Hamilton Seymour, G.C.B. On the 26th, at Southampton, aged 96, Lieutenant-Colonel William Hewett, third son of Right Hon. Sir George Hewett, G.C.B., of Freemantle, Southampton; received his commission in 1811; was present at the battle of Waterloo as junior captain of 3rd battalion 14th Foot, and afterwards of the Rifle Brigade; the last surviving officer present at Waterloo. On the 27th, at Giessen, aged 72, Dr. Heinrich K. H. Hoffmann, a most eminent German botanist; born at Rödelheim, near Frankfurt; studied medicine at Giessen and Berlin, and physiological chemistry in Paris and London; appointed, 1853, Professor of Botany at Giessen, and was also director of the Botanical Gardens there until his death. On the 28th, at Lyme Regis, aged 78, William Morgan Benett, of Fritham, Lyndhurst, eldest son of Captain Charles Cowper Benett, R.N. (senior male representative of the Benetts of Pyt house, Wilts); master in Chancery for many years; married, 1843, Barbara, daughter of Captain Waring, R.N., of Lyme Regis. On the 29th, at Southsea, aged 60, Vice-Admiral William Samuel Grieve, of Holland House, Southsea, and Orde Hall, Northumberland; entered the Royal Navy, 1845; present as lieutenant at siege of Bomarsund, 1854; commodore of the West India Station, 1876-81. On the 30th, at Ivy House, Ore, Sussex, aged 101 years and 356 days, Ann Catherine Eliot, daughter of Francis Percival Eliot, of Elmhurst Hall, Staffordshire, lieut.colonel of the Staffordshire Militia, and a Commissioner of Audit. On the 30th, at Hendon, Middlesex, aged 78, Rev. Frederick H. A. Scrivener, D.D., D.C.L. (Ox.), and LL.D. (Camb.); born at Bermondsey; educated at St. Olave's, Southwark; graduated at Trinity College, Cambridge; Junior Optime, 1835; assistant master Sherborne School, 1835-46; head-master of Falmouth School, 1846-56; rector of St. Germans, 1861-75, when he was appointed vicar of Hendon. One of the revisers of the New Testament; edited a "Collection of Twenty Greek MSS. of the Holy Gospels," the "Codex Augiensis," and a "Collection of the Codex Sinaiticus and Beza Codex Cantab," &c. On the 31st, at Chillingham, Northumberland, aged 99 years and ten months, Rev. Joseph Hudson, M.A.; Senior Opt., 1816; Fellow of St. Peter's College, Cambridge; Chaplain to the Forces in Canada, 1826-36; perpetual curate of Hexham, 1845-66; vicar of Chillingham. Said to be the oldest beneficed clergyman in England. He had performed duty to within a very short time of his death. On the 31st, at Brighton, aged 76, Ann, Dowager Viscountess Hill, only surviving daughter and heir of Joseph Clegg, of Peplow Hall, Salop; married, 1831, Rowland, second Viscount Hill. On the 31st, at Tunbridge Wells, aged 69, Lady Alicia Diana Young, third daughter of twelfth Earl of Buchan; married, first, 1853, Rev. Hon. Somerville Hay, son of fifteenth Earl of Erroll; and, second, 1858, James Young, of Weybridge. On the 31st, at Lyndhurst, aged 72, Lady Margaret Julia Lushington, daughter of sixteenth Earl of Erroll; married, 1846, Frederick Astell Lushington, B.C.S., fourth son of Sir Henry Lushington, second Baronet.

NOVEMBER.

Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte, who had left London for Italy a short time previously, died on Nov. 3, from failure of the action of the heart, at the house of his niece, the Countess Bracci, at Fano, on the coast of the Adriatic. The Prince, who had been ailing for some time, had proceeded to Italy by easy stages, under the care of his physician, Dr. Isambard Owen. Born in England on Jan. 4, 1813, and, after his early childhood at Urbino he spent a considerable part of his life in this country, at Loughton

and in London. He was the elder son of Prince Lucien Bonaparte, Prince de Canino, brother to the Emperor Napoleon I. and Mdlle. Alexandrine de Bleschamp. In 1832 he married Marianne Cecchi, an Italian, from whom he separated after a short union, and who became keeper of Napoleon's house at Ajaccio. Though better known as a savant than as a politician, Prince Louis did not entirely shun political life. In 1848, after the February Revolution, he appeared in France, and

was elected in Corsica as a member of the Constituante, but the election was annulled. A few months later he was returned to the Legislative Assembly. He supported the policy of the Elysée, but took no part in the Coup d'Etat. On the establishment of the Empire he was named a senator, and received the titles of Prince and Highness, but in his senatorial capacity his name never came prominently before the public. His tastes led him to literature, philology, and chemistry, rather than to politics. More or less acquainted with a large number of languages, he devoted especial attention to Basque, and published a Basque grammar which had a certain reputation among philologists. He published also the Parable of the Sower in seventy-two languages and dialects-a volume which must be regarded as a bibliographical curiosity rather than as a work of great scientific value. He was held in high esteem by the Queen and English Royal Family, and upon Mr. Gladstone's recommendation, in consideration of his philological researches, he received from the British Government, in 1883, a Civil List pension of 2501. During his long residence in England he had formed a large circle of acquaintances, especially in the world of literature and science, and a small group of devoted friends, who frequently gathered round him at his modest house in Norfolk Terrace, Bayswater. In 1891, immediately after the death of his first wife, Prince Lucien married an English lady, Mrs. Ricardo, by whom he had a son, Louis Clavering Clovis, who was formally legitimised, and who assumed, on his father's death, the title of Prince Louis Clovis Bonaparte, and married, Oct. 14, 1891, Laura Elizabeth, daughter of Frank Walter Scott, of Burgess Hill, London.

The Rev. E. Rodolph Suffield, whose secession from the Church of Rome in August 1870 excited some interest, expired on Nov. 13 at his residence in Craven Road, Reading, after some months of painful illness. He was born on Oct. 5, 1821, at Vevey, in Switzerland, his father being a Roman Catholic and his mother (Susan Tuley Bowen) an Anglican. He was educated by private tutors, and he went to St. Peter's College, Cambridge, in 1842 and 1943. He there won a classical and 280 2 mathematical scholarship; oraired a first class in each subject, and was bracketed with the present Prodes Sir William Thomwn. In 1946 te became a regin omaritan A the

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Roman Catholic Church, and afterwards entered the Sulpician Seminary at Issy. Thence he went to the Grand Séminaire, Paris. He left Paris in the Revolution of 1848, and went to Ireland, and in 1850 he was ordained a priest by Bishop Hogarth. With two other priests he was subsequently entrusted with the formation of a community of priests for retreats, missions, and directions of convents, which was instituted at St. Ninian's, Wooler, Northumberland. All his worldly possessions Mr. Suffield handed over for Roman Catholic purposes. A beautiful church was built at St. Ninian's. Eventually, his two coadjutors retiring from ill-health, Mr. Suffield took sole charge of the work. For two years out of that period Mr. Suffield resided at St. Andrew's, Newcastle-on-Tyne, and, at the same time, took charge of a parish and built a church at Walker. While at Newcastle he introduced the custom of collecting Peter's Pence. Subsequently, with the consent of the Pope, Mr. Suffield made over the charge of St. Ninian's to the Dominicans, determining to enter that order. As a Dominican he held various offices in Woodchester Priory. In the October following his secession from the Church of Rome Mr. Suffield became minister of the Unitarian Church at Croydon, which he relinquished in 1887, in consequence of failing health. In 1879 he accepted the ministry of the Reading Unitarian Church. He resigned his pastoral duties in 1888, but continued to reside in Reading. He interested himself in lecturing and preaching occasionally in different parts of the country, and in literary and political work, and took an active part in promoting many useful local movements. His retirement from the Roman Ca tholic Church was much regretted by those of that community who knew him. A work which he compiled at Newcastle, the "Crown of Jesus," published without his name, had a very large circulation. When the authorship became known some time after his secession, the sale was greatly affected, and when the pubisher died it ceased to be reprinted. By the deceased's special wish he was cremated at Woking,

The Earl of Lytton. Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Fari of Lytton, GC.B., the only son of Lord Lytton, the nove,at and stateam,an, was born in Hert ford street in 1-31, and, after spending witch year at Harrow, was sent to Bonn to doby modern languages, and, in 1849, was appointed astmté the uncle bir

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Henry Bulwer (afterwards Lord Dalling), then Minister at Washington. After two years' absence he returned to Europe, and filled subordinate diplomatic posts at all the principal European capitals. During this period he brought himself before the world as a man of letters, and under the pseudonym of "Owen Meredith" published Clytemnestra and other Poems" (1855), "Lucile " (1860), and "Tannhauser" (1861), in collaboration with the Hon. Julian Fane, at that time secretary to the Embassy at Vienna; the "Ring of Amasis (1863), and "Fables in Song" (1874). In all of these works he displayed an appreciation of poetry rather than original genius. In 1864 he married Edith, younger twin daughter of Hon. Edward Villiers, and a niece of the fourth Earl of Clarendon, and in 1873, when he succeeded his father as Lord Lytton, he was secretary to the Embassy at Paris. In 1874 he was appointed Minister at Lisbon, whence, in 1876, he was unexpectedly recalled, and appointed by Mr. Disraeli to be Viceroy of India, for which post his love of pageantry and his sympathy with a forward Imperial policy seemed his chief recommendations. His taste for the former found a magnificent opportunity in the grand Durbar of Jan. 1, 1877, at Delhi, where the Queen was formally proclaimed to the assembled princes Empress of India. The Russian advance towards the north-east frontier, and her intrigues in Afghanistan, furnished occasion for a display of his other qualities. Shere Ali, embittered by his failure to obtain a British guarantee for his sovereignty and family succession, turned to Russia, and received General Stolietof at Cabul with great honour, whilst Sir Neville Chamberlain's mission was turned back at the frontier. Lord Lytton at once declared war, and in a few weeks the Ameer had fled from Cabul with the Russian mission, and in six months the Treaty of Gandamak was signed (May 1879), and by it the foreign relations of Afghanistan were subjected to British control. Four months later the British Resident, Sir Louis Cavagnari, and his escort were murdered in Cabul, and war was at once recommenced. Sir Frederick Roberts was commissioned first to command the Cabul field force, and subsequently to relieve the Candahar garrison, which had been severely pressed after the disastrous battle of Maiwand, where the defeat of the British troops seriously compromised for a moment our prestige in India. Lord Lytton, who was in a

great measure responsible for the frontier policy of that time, was not, however, recalled until, on the change of Ministry, Lord Ripon was sent by Mr. Gladstone to reverse his predecessor's policy. Lord Lytton was raised to an earldom.

For some years he remained in comparative obscurity, speaking in the House of Lords at rare intervals and with considerable fluency and polish. In 1885 he published a long poem in six books, "Glenaveril," in the style of "Don Juan," dealing with some of the leading politicians of the day, which, whilst adding little to his literary reputation, threw some light upon his aims and thoughts, and in the following year appeared the translation of some tales by Erdmann Edler. In 1887, on the death of Lord Lyons, he was, to general surprise, appointed to the much coveted post of Ambassador at Paris, where his avowed French proclivities, as well as his keen appreciation of artistic and literary distinction, made him a most popular representative of this country, and his tact as well as his sympathies did much to preserve friendly relations between the two countries during a period of considerable tension. In 1887 he published another volume of Byronic verses, "After Paradise, or Legends of Exile," and in 1890 re-wrote in great part the Ring of Amasis." In 1888 he was elected Lord Rector of Glasgow University, and in his rectorial address discussed at great length the contrast between public and private morals. He had been for some time in a weak state of health, and had undergone at least one operation, but no idea of his being in any danger existed in the minds of his friends. had transacted business during the morning of the day of his death (Nov. 24), although confined to bed, and had been writing verses, of which the ink was not dry when he succumbed to a sudden cessation of the action of the heart. In no sense a great statesman, and scarcely even a distinguished diplomatist, he left behind the reputation of a man who might have risen to the first rank had he added persistence and laboriousness to his other qualities. By some he was thought to have modelled himself too much after his father's "Pelham," and had cultivated accomplishments rather than acquired knowledge.

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The Bishop of Carlisle.--The Right Rev. Harvey Goodwin, Bishop of Carlisle, was born at King's Lynn, Norfolk, in 1818, and, after studying with private

tutors, entered at Caius College, Cambridge, where he graduated as Second Wrangler and Smith's Prizeman in 1840. Elected to a Fellowship and Tutorship of his college, he held at the same time (1848-58) the living of St. Edward's, Cambridge, and at one period was Hulsean Lecturer. In 1858 he was appointed Dean of Ely, whence, in 1865, he was promoted to the Bishopric of Carlisle, on the death of Bishop Waldegrave. In early life he was the author of various mathematical treatises and text-books, and a "Life of Bishop Mackenzie," who had charge of the Universities' Mission in Africa, and, at a later period, of several religious works, amongst which were "Walks in the Region of Science and Faith" (1883), "The Foundations of the Creed" (1889), &c. He at one time showed a leaning towards the school of muscular Christianity, but he never identified himself with either Church party, and consequently preserved peace in his diocese. He was the original proposer and strong supporter of the Church House to be

erected in commemoration of her Majesty's Jubilee. In the House of Lords he was a frequent speaker on all ecclesiastical and cognate subjects, he was one of the few bishops who supported the Oaths Bill of 1888, and in many other questions he showed wide sympathies, as on the Lords Committee on Intemperance, the Criminal Law Amend ment Act, and even on the legalisation of marriage with a deceased wife's sister, holding, in opposition to the other bishops, that if the Bill became law the children of such marriages should be legitimated. He married, 1845, Ellen, daughter of George King, of Higher Bebington, Chester, and sister of Rev. Bryan King, a High Church incumbent, whose extreme views created great disturbances at St. George's-inthe-East, London. His death, which was very sudden, took place at Bishopsthorpe on Nov. 25, whilst on a visit to the Archbishop of York, having left Carlisle two days before in his usual health.

On the 2nd, at Heavitree, Exeter, aged 85, Jane, widow of Edward Fox Fitzgerald, daughter of Sir John Dean Paul, Baronet; married, 1827, Captain Edward Fox Fitzgerald, son of the ill-fated Lord Edward Fitzgerald, and his wife, "Pamela," the reputed daughter of Philippe Egalité and Madame de Genlis. On the 4th, at Hopwood Hall, Lancashire, aged 81, Edward John Gregge-Hopwood, eldest son of Robert Gregge-Hopwood; educated at Eton; some time captain in the Guards; married, 1839, Susan Fanny, daughter of John Baskervyle-Glegg, of Withington Hall, Cheshire. On the 4th, at Talbot Square, Bayswater, aged 66, Dame Elizabeth Helen Grant, widow of General Sir Hope Grant, G.C.B., and daughter of Benjamin Taylor, H.E.I.C.S. On the 4th, at Ealing, aged 76, John Thornhill Harrison, Engineering Inspector of the Local Government Board; he had worked under Brunel in the construction of the Great Western Railway, and was a member of the first Rivers Pollution Commission. On the 5th, at Creech Grange, Wareham, aged 45, George Hawkesworth Bond, M.P., son of Rev. Nathaniel Bond, rector of Steeple, Dorset; born at Holme Priory; educated at Oriel College, Oxford; contested East Dorset as a Conservative in 1885, when he was defeated, but was returned in 1886 against Hon. P. C. Glyn, the sitting member. On the 9th, in South London, aged 69, George H. Haydon; born at Exeter; educated as an architect; emigrated to Australia, 1×10; and on his return in 1846 published "Five Years in Australia Felix"; appointed, 1858 Steward of Bridewell and Bethlem Hospitals; resigned 1889. On the 9t5, at Curtia Lyons. (A) Kildare, aged 31, Hon. Rose Lawless, daughter of third Lord Gloncurry, wardent. ally drowned in a pond in the park. On the 10th, at Clevedon, homeriet, myvi 45. Professor Henry Nottidge Moseley, LL.D., F.R.S., son of Key, Henry Monday, F.R.S., Canon of Bristol; born at Wandsworth; educated at Harrow as A. Vizitar College, Oxford, where be obtained a Kado.ffe Travung kollowup, and at agad medicine in London, Vienna and Leipzig; appointed to vie kay at kapa kepa dition to bouthern India. 1-71. and Laturajat on board H.M., Orvillenger 1872 4, of which exposition, ne put lated ** Notre of a Natura (1879): **nkow of Exeter College. 1976; Fellow of the Boya. Society 1877. Arritant kayatrar A University of London, 1978-81; and Le were Protkamor of Aratony a67b4 18dr He married, inni. Acnate, youngna bangster of J. Gwyn, defreye, k ka, a wi knows essenologia. 206 ve the attor of wvery important piper 95 računal On the lith, at be grase Pw with Wil Laty Lyveces Laty Albreda Ezabeth, casuster of tere har kizw 18% w Lord LoveHE at 1 ww. buntore web Zeta Mary, Martiness of Westmist, wong wuguer of åre bus d buiten wi

married, 1819, the second Marquess of Westminster, K.G. On the 12th, in Montague Place, W.C., aged 49, Hon. Lewis Strange Wingfield, younger son of sixth Viscount Powerscourt; educated at Eton and Bonn; and was by turns artist, actor, author, surgeon, critic and war correspondent; he was one of the earliest Englishmen who obtained permission to travel in the interior of China. In the Franco-German war and during the Commune he worked incessantly in the Ambulance Department, and of recent years superintended the stage presentation of various Shakespearian plays, his knowledge of costume and archeological detail being very wide. He married, 1868, Hon. Cecilia, daughter of first Baron Castletown. On the 12th, at Kingston-on-Thames, aged 78, Thomas Curson Hansard; called to the Bar 1843, and for upwards of fifty years was engaged in conjunction with Mr. Cornelius Buck in the editing of the Parliamentary Debates, first started by his father in 1804. On the 12th, at Woodford, Essex, aged 65, Henry Ford Barclay, banker; married, 1848, Richenda Louisa, daughter of Samuel Gurney, of Upton House, Essex. On the 15th, in Paris, aged 49, Emma Mary, Dowager Duchesse de Gramont, daughter of William Alexander Mackinnon, of Acryse Park, Kent. On the 15th, at Coldenrick, aged 60, Vice-Admiral Charles Trelawney Jago; entered the Royal Navy in 1843; served as lieutenant on board H.M. Enterprise 1850-4 in the search for Sir John Franklin, spending the winter on the ice. On the 16th, in Ebury Street, aged 72, Hon. Robert Neville Lawley, second son of first Lord Wenlock; served in 2nd Life Guards; retired as captain in 1853; married, 1852, Georgina, youngest daughter of General Lord Edward Somerset.. On the 16th, at Vienna, aged 60, General Baron Joseph Doepfner, President of the Supreme Court of Military Justice, a distinguished officer who had taken part in all campaigns since 1849. He was regarded as the arbiter of all affairs of honour between Austrian officers. On the 16th, at Bath, aged 100 years and 4 months, Lieutenant Frederick Bayley, "the father of the British Army," appointed to the Royal Artillery in 1809; served in the Peninsular War, 1809-14; American War, 1814; attached to Prussian army in France as Commissioner, 1815-17; retired on half-pay in 1829. On the 18th, at Cambridge, aged 62, Professor Joseph Wolsten holme; educated at St. John's College, Cambridge; Third Wrangler, 1850; Fellow of St. John's and afterwards of Christ's College; Professor of Mathematics at Cooper's Hill College, 1869-89; the author of numerous mathematical works of great originality and research. On the 19th, at Edgbaston, aged 64, Ralph Heaton, Chairman of the Birmingham Mint Company. Having purchased the coining apparatus of Matthew Boulton's mint at Soho, he began by improving the manufacture of copper "blanks" for the Royal Mint, and afterwards supplied coinage for nearly every European country, as well as India, China, Canada, Brazil, and the South American Republic. On the 20th, at Pau, aged 38, Sir Victor Alexander Brooke, third Baronet; educated at Harrow; married, 1864, Alice S., daughter of Sir A. E. Bellingham. He was a keen sportsman, and well known in India and various parts of Europe. On the 20th, in St. James's Square, London, aged 69, Dowager Viscountess Falmouth, May Frances, only child of Hon. Thomas Stapleton; succeeded, 1831, her grandfather as twenty-third Baroness Le-Despencer; married, 1845, Evelyn, sixth Viscount Falmouth. On the 21st, in Park Street, Grosvenor Square, aged 84, Lady Ebury, Lady Charlotte Arbuthnot Wellesley, eldest daughter of Earl Cowley; married, 1831, Robert Grosvenor, youngest son of first Marquess of Westminster; created Lord Ebury, 1857. On the 23rd, at his lodgings, Oxford, aged 77, Rev. Evan Evans, D.D., Master of Pembroke College, where as a scholar he obtained a Second Class in Classics, 1835; ordained, 1837; Fellow and Tutor, 1843-64, when he was elected Master and appointed Canon of Gloucester. On the 23rd, at Charles Street, Berkeley Square, aged 62, Charles Magniac, of Colworth, Bedfordshire, eldest son of Hollingworth Magniac; educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, and became a partner in the firm of Matheson & Co. of Lombard Street. He sat in Parliament as a Liberal for St. Ives, Cornwall, 1868-74; for the borough of Bedford, 1880-5; and for North Bedfordshire, 1885; but was defeated at the General Election of 1886, and was recommended by Mr. Gladstone for a peerage, which, however, was not obtained for him. He was a keen sportsman, a practical agriculturist, and a first-rate landlord, devoting much time and energy to improve the farmers and farming of his county. He purchased Chesterfield House, South Audley Street, and erected a number of houses on its grounds. Married, 1857, Augusta, daughter of first Baron Castletown of Upper Ossory, and widow of Colonel the Hon. T. Vesey Dawson. On the 25th, in an omnibus, near Charing Cross, aged 57, Alfred Haggis, Deputy-Chairman of the London County Council, to which post he had been elected on the equally

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